Manitic Zombies

Well these are the infamous mantic zombies. Good ain't they. These actually have a few bits from the ghouls set mixed in; some legs and heads. There is the small issue of only being three torsos with fixed left arms (one has both arms fixed), although this can be overcome, to a degree, by vairing the position you glue the torso to the legs.

But, even with this and cutting and repositioning a few of the fixed arms, you can still still see the amount of similar poses. I think this unit of 20 just about gets away with it. But a 'horde' of 30-40 or more it would look a bit silly.

I really enjoyed painting these, the detail is astounding, they are top notch sculpts for the low price. Bellow are the obligatory 'zombies-busting-from-the-ground' which will look even better when the have been based. All in all, I love these miniatures and they deserve the hype they get on the internet. They just look so bloody good (even after my average quality painting).

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ebay!

Well, over the bank holiday weekend I became slightly obsessed with ebay. I was sure there was a warhammer bargin on there somewhere. I lost several autions, which at the time almost made me cry, but on refection they weren't even good deals at the end. Most stuff seems to sell around the RRP anyway, which makes sence I guess; people stop bidding when the box that would cost you £15 in the shop get to £15 on ebay, I know I do.

In the end I found this lot on the 'buy it now' section, £15 for 19 spearmen. Not bad, considering that it would cost £30 if you where to buy 20 empire state troops from GW nowdays. Also there the classic 6th edition, and so go with my existing empire troops. I plan to partioally repaint them; the black parts of the uniform will get a blue coat so they match the Nordland blue and yellow of my army.

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Mantic Skeletons

So here is the first unit of 20 mantic skeletons. I went for a red 'uniform' as it contrasts with the colour schemes of my other fantasy armies.
40 Skeletons come in the army set, I have built them so that one regiment is spear armed and the one here is equipped with hand weapons.The shields are hand painted in a variety of generic heraldry patterns, just 'cus I fancied it really andI didn't want them to look too uniform. Also talthough they are predomantly red most of the figures actully dressed in a fair bit of brown cloth.

Mantic Undead army

I have done a bad thing, and not stuck to my 2011 plan. I don't know how I could have been this weak. I have ordered the undead army set and a death king's cabal. costing a total of £54. I have been looking at mantics stuff for a while, but this is the first time I have bought any of their stuff.

They had a 'one day only' offer or scam as I would call it, if it were on sofas or something. Anyway I bought the stuff and got free shipping and 15% off.

So I can spend Easter, building the undead horde. The army set come with an amazing 110 models, compared to the 50 the GW undead box of the same price comes with. I got the 4 characters as well to lead them on. These can take on my warhammer empire army, using either the warhammer rules or the kings of war rules.

I went for undead, as I've never been a fan of elves, and I already have some GW Dwarfs (from scull pass). The mantic Dwarfs don't look like they would fit in next to the GW ones, so it's either start from scratch with the dwarfs or stick with GW.

This all means I now have Human, Orc/Goblin and now undead fantasy armies.

Looking at what I have to build and paint, its a flipping long list. But, funny things happen during holidays and I paint at a rate of knots. I think I'll probably set myself a challenging time limit to get the undead army ready for the battle field. After that there is still the empire knights, battalions and battalions of War of 1812 stuff, and god know what else.

Speaking of 1812, I got a load of Militia models for christmas from old glory and another company who I can't remeber the name of. I now have about 3 battalions worth.

Anyway, till next time...

Empire Battle Wizard

Here are a couple of pics of my Empire wizard, this one uses the law of death on account that it's a quite shooty magic law. I can't deal with all those silly 'extra movement' spells or '-1 amour save' rubbish, I like a nice magic missile, and hence my other wizard uses the law of fire (but I haven't got any photos of him).

My Empire army is a long running... ...er... ...'project', I've got almost 1000pts at the moment. I tend do buy a new unit, maybe, once a year or so. The pair of wizards I got when they first came out in plastic ages ago. Around the same time I painted up 10 spear men.
However things are moving forward, though the post came a knightly order box and a general/battle standard bearer box, which will take the army over the 1000pts hump. But that'll be all in 2010 for Imperial reinforcements.

Goblins 'Fousands of 'em!

I've been busy, paining the 60 goblin infantry from BFSP, here's a few poor photos of them. I've gone for a fairly generic night goblin look, with dark robes mostly blacks and browns; with a few blue hoods thrown in. You notice the white moons on the shields, they were going to be yellow, but once I finished the base coat of white I decided I quite liked the white on black look; so have kept with it. When I start the Orcs I will stay with the black, brown and blue colour scheme to make the army look somewhat unified. These goblins aren't fully finished, the flesh still needs shading as do the dwarfs, but at least there now an acceptable gaming standard.

Next up on the painting desk is the spider riders...

Axes of the Dwarves!

WELL the other week I bought the battle for skull pass set, as I can see it going OOP, with the new edition of warhammer this summer.
The plan being: the goblins will help expand my small orc force (from the previous edition stater set, y'know the one with empire and orcs) to 1000pts.

Also, the dwarfes from bfsp will be the nucleus of a 1000pts dwarf army, which hopefully won't be a too expensive project with their 'high' points per dwarf (joke). My idea is to bulk up the warriors and miners to units of about 20, and then add a unit of crossbows and a runesmith and then take stock. I'll post a predicted army list soon.

Anyhoo, here are some pictures of the mostly painted dwarf army, (not the best pics, I know).